The 2005 legend, reissued on Ethereum. 1,000,000 plots. $1 each. When they are gone, the page is finished forever.
Claim a plot
GENESISThe first 10,000 pixels carry a permanent Genesis badge on the board, in the bot and on your plot page.
10,000 genesis pixels left
1,000,000 plots on a 1000 × 1000 grid. Drag over empty cells, add your image and link, pay $1 per pixel in $1M. Your pixels stay up for good.
Every purchase links to its Ethereum transaction. Check them yourself.
Ranked by pixels owned.
The lore
On 26 August 2005, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from Wiltshire, needed money for university. He built a single white web page, split it into a million pixels and sold them for $1 each, in blocks of 10 by 10.
Startups, newspapers, casinos and total strangers bought in. Five months later the last 1,000 pixels sold on eBay for $38,100 and the page closed at $1,037,100. It became a museum piece of the early web.
By 2017, Harvard researchers found 547 of its 2,816 links already dead. So we rebuilt the page where nothing vanishes, on the same 1000 × 1000 grid: 1,000,000 plots at $1, paid onchain, each one tied to the wallet and the transaction that claimed it.
The original math, one more time: 1,000,000 plots × $1 = $1,000,000. When the last plot sells, the board is complete and frozen as a snapshot of the internet in 2026.
The story is not ours to invent. Here are the receipts, straight from the press and the archives. Click any source to read it yourself.
The page launches: a 1000 × 1000 grid, $1 per pixel, sold in 10 × 10 blocks.
“The home page consists of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid”Wikipedia ↗
The idea took twenty minutes in a notepad.
“Twenty minutes later, the Million Dollar Homepage idea was born.”BBC News Magazine ↗
The final 1,000 pixels go up for auction on eBay.
“This is your last chance to literally own a piece of 'internet history'!”Search Engine Journal, quoting the eBay listing ↗
The auction closes at $38,100. Every pixel is sold.
“the bidding for the last available space on this giant pixel billboard stood at $38,100”The Register ↗
The BBC confirms the last square is gone.
“A student has sold the last piece of advertising space on his website selling a million pixels for $1m.”BBC News ↗
Harvard maps the decay: a fifth of the links are already gone.
“Of the 2,816 links that embedded on the page (accounting for a total of 999,400 pixels), 547 are entirely unreachable”Harvard Library Innovation Lab ↗
The original page is still online. Go see the 2005 canvas, then come back and claim the 2026 one.
milliondollarhomepage.com
Drag across empty cells on the board, or type exact coordinates.
Add an image, a title and the link your plot should open.
Pay $1 per pixel in $1M, converted at the live price.
Once the transaction confirms, your pixels go live on the board.
$1M is the currency of the board: every pixel is paid in $1M, always worth $1 at the live price. The only valid contract address will be posted here, on X (@1Mdollarhome) and in the official Telegram.
One plot: one cell of the board showing your image, title and link. Buy several adjacent cells to make a bigger ad.
Connect an Ethereum wallet (MetaMask, Rabby, Coinbase Wallet) holding $1M. One pixel always costs $1: the site converts it to $1M at the live market price and you send that amount. Sales open when the token launches.
Permanently. There is no rent and no renewal. The board is a time capsule.
Not yet. The contract address will be announced on this page and in the official Telegram. Ignore any address posted anywhere else.
Keep the page open, confirmation can take a minute. If it still fails, message the Telegram with your transaction hash and we will sort it out.
No. It is an independent onchain tribute to the original idea and is not affiliated with its creator.
